Re: truth of %nil

2009-07-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Having thought more about optimizing %nil handling, it occurs to me that we will also want boolean tests from within lisp to be optimized. >From lisp, three values are considered to be false: #f, '(), and %nil. We can use the same bit-masking trick to do these tests quickly if we make sure that th

Re: popen test hangs

2009-07-07 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > Neil Jerram wrote: >> "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" writes: > >>> it seems that the popen test hangs: >> Grrr. I thought we'd nailed that... > >>> then it hangs for at least an hour or so. My configure invocation is: >>

Re: Guile HEAD on Cygwin-1.7

2009-07-07 Thread szgyg
Andy Wingo wrote: On Sat 27 Jun 2009 15:36, szgyg writes: --- T.scm --- (define *old-stack-level* (and=> (memq 'stack (debug-options)) cadr)) (debug-set! stack (* 2 *old-stack-level*)) (display #t) - $ guile -q --debug -s T.scm Backtrace: In ../../module/ice-9/boot-9.scm: 874: 0*